She shifted, a mixture of innocence and confidence in her womanhood that tossed another layer of arousal over him. Knowing he wouldn’t be able to sustain this level of temptation for much longer, he reached behind her and unhooked her simple satin bra. Full, beautiful breasts spilled free, and he fell on them with a decidedly unsophisticated eagerness. He laved the sweet tight peaks, shamelessly feeding on her tortured groans as her back arched off the bed and her nails dug into his skin.
‘Xandro,’ she gasped, her movements growing more frantic with each caress of his tongue. He closed his eyes, losing himself in her sounds and scent. Releasing one breast, he trailed his hand over her silky-smooth midriff, then lower until he reached the edge of her panties. He delved beneath, eagerly searching for that tight bundle of nerves and her feminine core beneath. The moment he touched her there, she bucked wildly beneath him. Craving more of that unfettered response, he circled her faster, firmer, while trailing his mouth across her belly.
‘Come for me, pethi mou,’ he growled against her skin.
* * *
Sage couldn’t believe it was possible to experience so much pleasure for this long without erupting in a ball of flames. Dear God, she couldn’t believe she was here in his bed, shamelessly aroused sounds spilling from her throat.
It was supposed to be just a kiss.
But the magic he’d woven from the moment he’d stepped into the room and asked to stay was always going to lead to this. She wasn’t so far gone as to believe what was happening was written in the stars, but there had been an inevitability powered by the chemistry between them. This might be a mistake she’d regret in the morning. Their worlds were too different for anything more than a brief collision of lust to be sustained. But in this moment nothing had felt so good.
She cried out as his fingers increased their decadent pressure. Driven out of her mind with desire, she sank her nails into the only solid thing she could find. Xandro’s shoulders. He groaned and muttered something indecipherable. A moment later her panties were tugged from her body. And then his mouth replaced his fingers.
Shock threatened to supersede pleasure. Her head jerked off the pillow, her face flaming. ‘No... I...’
Turbulent grey eyes locked on hers, daring her to deny the act he was determined to deliver. ‘Come for me,’ he insisted again, and then pressed his mouth against her needy core in a bold, possessive kiss.
Her unravelling was wild, unfettered and immediate. Sensation piled upon sensation as he stroked her with his tongue. Minutes passed. The burst of light across her vision slowly faded and her shameless pants reduced to heavy breaths. Then a different sensation suffused her as he kissed his way up her body.
‘Incredible,’ he murmured against the corner of her mouth.
Sage was certain the tail end of her climax was drawn out just by his deep voice alone. Another shiver rippled through her when she heard him rip the condom open. She opened her eyes to the sight of a gloriously naked and magnificent Xandro crouched above her.
He really was the perfect male specimen. Big and unapologetically male, the fierce intent blazing in his eyes snatched her newly regained breath away. One hand fisted her hair, the other clamped on her hip. Eyes locked on hers, Xandro thrust steady and deep inside her.
Her hoarse cry tangled with his gravel-rough groan. When he was buried to the hilt inside her, they both stilled, the earthshaking moment of their union demanding a little time to assimilate. And then he was moving, stretching her, filling her again.
The sensation was unlike anything she’d ever experienced.
Again Xandro muttered something in Greek, hot and heavy against her neck, as he penetrated her. Increasing the rhythm, he set them both on a journey that left her clinging to him, her heart threatening to beat itself out of her chest. Just when she thought it couldn’t get any better, he slid his hand beneath her, angling her hips to meet his thrusts.
‘I love the way you tremble against me like this. Mine. All mine,’ he rasped in her ear.
Sage would never know if it was that possessive throb in his voice that sent her over the edge. She had a feeling it was everything about him. His magnificent body, the raging fire in his eyes, the words she couldn’t understand, the sheer animalistic power of his thrusts.
She fell off the edge of the world with a searing scream that triggered his own release. Convulsions rippled through them in endless waves of bliss. And when he collapsed against her, sweat from his body mingled with her own, sealing them even tighter together.
They stayed locked like that, catching their breath.
Inevitably, of course, reality crept close. The moment he left the bed to head to the bathroom, unwanted thoughts began to crowd in.
What had she done?
With the itch scratched, would they return to being strangers who snapped at each other when they were in the same room? Or would that be too much to even bother with—?
‘Thee mou, we’ve barely finished making love and already I can hear you thinking loud enough to wake the dead,’ he rasped as he slid back into bed and tugged her close.
She bit her lip. ‘I can’t help it.’
He propped himself on one elbow and stared down at her with eyes that were still stormy
from their sexual high. ‘Maybe I should dedicate all my time to keeping you completely distracted then,’ he mused.
‘How on earth will your empire survive in your absence?’
‘I’m ace at multi-tasking.’